Why League is different and not in a good way.

My Name is Nerf Ninja Tabi, and I've been playing league for about 6 years now (since season 2-3) and I have not been enjoying league at all, it's not the game I once loved and played. (Many vets of league can agree with me) Alot of players from season 1-3 have stopped playing this game just because of season 6-7-8 is a trainwreck. They've moved on to fortnite because its very well optimised and its sadly more enjoyable to play then league. It's free to play and you don't get harassed by the community because there is no text/voice chat to flame people in.

The ban system in league isn't what it used to be, you run it down mid you get a slap on the wrist, you call someone a %%%got. LOL, Goodluck with the permaban, you flame someone without using any blacklisted words or telling them to kill themself, you're free to go. You get no punishment and you can go into the next game and flame the next set of teammates without getting ATLEAST a 14day ban. The report button must be broken because it just doesn't work. I'm sick and tired of this new league of legends ban system where it's run by AI where people can get away with the stupidest things if they know how to avoid the bot

So I did what any sane person would do, I went through almost 100+ patch notes 3.1 - 8.7 it took me several hours of boring reading, analyzing, and understanding, and I can say for a fact season 3-5 was the best by a long shot, And heres why.

League of Legends was gaining popularity as this fairly new game, it was a game that friends could play or if you were good enough play in ranked and try to make it big. With their amazing E-sports tournaments, fun game concept, and willingness to take big risks to try make the game fun and enjoyable for all players and ranks. Riot wasn't afraid to nerf a champion or make these big changes in order to bring peace back to the summoners rift so they could kill each other with skill instead of a champion's kit being overly broken.

Season 1-5 did massive changes to the game, the meta would change every patch. Champions would be buffed and nerfed heavily, massive bug fixes, new items, the removal of some items (RIP sword of the occult and death fire grasp) Every champion got a turn in the spotlight, and were taken out when needed. You could just fuck around with the stupidest team comps like, all support or all assassins and play for fun, and sometimes actually win games because you outskilled the enemy team. You could go full attack speed hybrid soraka and win games just because your able to win with mechanics instead of the champions overwhelming powerful kit, and that's what made the game fun. There was variety, nothing was super strong you couldn't play around it.

Now look at season 6-8, Riot is completely different, they don't care about people who play the game for fun. They only care about ranked money and E-sports (Thats why they pump out several skins each patch for like 975-1350 each) Champions and meta are completely broken and have been for several months at a time. (Look at ADC that role has been broken for around 2 years, same with jungle, tanks, and supports like janna and lulu) and even though I don't play top lane alot, I have to agree with hashinshin a bit. Because that lane blows dick. Why would I want to play a braindead tank like malphite every single game just to stay relevant in top lane, that boring as shit. New keystone that came out doesn't help anyone but ADCs, you know the role that is able to 2v8 every single game because they just snowball on the other laner. Every game comes down to who is the better ADC/Jungler, Top lane is just powerfarm till 40 minutes and hopefully have 3 levels on everyone and able to 1v9 but thats like 1% of games, mid lane just blows dick alot of the time unless you are fizz azir or a yasuo that didn't feed 0/13. Relic shield and overheal meta was in the game for about 8 patches and Riot didn't give a shit about that. (Glad that its gone now)

Everyone in the Riot balance system are subhuman and don't know how to do their job, they just go to a random number generator and nerf or buff a champion with the number that came out, (Wow cait is overpowered guys, lets nerf her by 2.64575 AD that will balance her guys!) I feel like riot has lost all motivation for working on their game so they just randomly throw in patches without listening to feedback to say they still work on this game, when in reality they don't. Also the amount of bugs in this game is insane, Draven (the champion that I main) has had 4 bugs that haven't been fixed and they've been in the game since season 6 but really started taking affect preseason 8. Riot has PBE but don't listen to any of the feedback that is on their, and somehow the stupid changes get filtered into the live servers.

The game is about done for, its unbalanced and unfun to play. If your reading this Riot games, fix the game. Or make an Old school league of legends client where your able to play back in season 1-5. Because I don't want to play season 8 anymore, I would do anything to have old league back.